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Famous For Something Else: Rethinking Jim Thorpe’s Baseball Career
It’s sometimes said that Jim Thorpe, for all his great talent, couldn’t hit a curveball, and that baseball was his worst sport. Well, maybe, but then you look at his statistics. Take a look: Year Age...
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The All-Announcer Team
This certainly has been done before, but I thought I’d do it: What if you had to make a team made up of announcers and color commentators (either as regulars or as common fill-ins) from either TV or...
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The Unwritten Rules of Watching Baseball
There are unwritten rules of playing baseball, but what are the unwritten rules of watching baseball? Or at least rules of thumbs or something… Well…. Veeck’s Law: The knowledge of baseball at a major...
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A Day With Legends: The 2013 Pepsi Max Field of Dreams Game
You may have heard of the Pepsi Max Field of Dreams game, probably semi-heard during commercial breaks of MLB Network. Well, basically, it’s part old-timers game, and part fantasy camp. Two teams play...
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434.2 milliseconds
434.2 milliseconds. That’s about how long it takes a 95 MPH fastball to reach home plate. It’s only about 34 milliseconds more than what it takes some people blink. Only 134 more milliseconds than it...
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Classic Continuum: Ballplayers who gave everything
This article was initially published on Memorial Day, 2012. On this Memorial Day, it is as good a time as any to mention some of the ballplayers who gave their lives serving in America’s armed forces....
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Crazy Question: Should Surgeons be in the Hall of Fame? (AKA: The Importance...
A man who had a major impact in baseball passed today, someone who helped teams win championships and aided some of the biggest names in the sport. That man was Lewis Yocum, and he was a orthopedic...
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The Joys of Strike Zone
The most under-rated and overlooked piece of baseball television is the MLB Strike Zone channel. You probably have no idea what I am talking about. That proves the above point about it being the most...
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The Curse of Steve McCatty’s Playgirl Shoot (Humor)
On May 21, our friend Michael Clair over at Old Time Family Baseball wrote an article over at Baseball Prospectus in which he did tongue-in-cheek scouting reports of ballplayers who did Playgirl shoots...
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Random Link/Article-I-Found-Interesting: The Congressional Baseball Game is...
Weather permitting, the annual baseball game between the Democrats and Republicans of Congress is going on right now. It’s taken very seriously, to the point where freshman congressmen who would...
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The Grandest Question: Who would win in a fight? (Humor)
Introduction: Superman vs. Batman. Godzilla vs. King Kong. Kirk vs. Picard. Questions such as these have raged since the beginning of time. All types of media have tried to answer questions such as...
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Updating the Twitter List
Last year, I talked about good Twitter accounts to follow. For the most part, those are still true. So, in addition to those, I add in these suggestions. They are by no means the only ones to follow…...
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It’s the 20th Anniversary of “Rookie Of The Year”, here’s what I have to say...
Pulling the curtain for a second, an admission: I originally had this big plan where I would watch the now-20-year-old kid-baseball classic Rookie of the Year and figure out the statistics for it’s...
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Continuum Week In Review (7/1-7/7) and Week Ahead (7/8-7/14)
This past week on the Continuum: MVPs of Yesterday included Homer Bailey, Robinson Cano, and Justin Ruggiano. I looked at some baseball-related food feats. I remembered Rookie of the Year. Cal Ripken...
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Continuum Week In Review (7/8-7/14) and Week Ahead (7/15-7/21)
This week on the Continuum… MVPs of Yesterday included Tim Lincecum, Freddie Freeman, Buster Posey and Robinson Cano. OOTP Baseball went on sale here. I went off-topic and raved about Pacific Rim. The...
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REVIEW: Out of the Park Baseball 2014
Prologue: (Note: If you want the review, just go to the jump) September 8, 2015. Another lost season for the Buffalo Upstatesmen, the long-time butt of jokes in the Northeast Division of the Eastern...
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A Quick Book Review: “Cellar Dwellers” by Jonathan Weeks
So, I finally broke down and started reading eBooks. I dunno how I’ll do with it, since I so much like the feel of the paper page and reading things on a computer always seems to lead me to getting...
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Britain moves up and Russia shows up on Continuum Baseball Rankings after...
(For information on the Continuum Rankings and how they are figured out, go here.) Over the past month or so, there have been qualifiers for Europe’s baseball championships that will take place next...
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Can I interest you in Cy Young’s Coffee Pot? (Semi-Humor*)
While checking eBay for a share to Rochester Community Baseball (no luck!), I instead came across this. If you don’t want to look at it or the link has gone dead, here’s what it is: It’s a coffee pot...
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Peter Gammons has a website now
Peter Gammons now has a Grantland-style website. That is all.
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